Impact of Restructuring Program of Teaching Hospitals in SUS in a Ceara hospital

Abstract

In order to evaluate the performance of a teaching hospital in the State of Ceará after its contracting with the Unified Health System, an evaluative, descriptive and exploratory research was conducted with a qualitative approach, based on the Fourth Generation Evaluation Guba and Lincoln (1989), in a philanthropic hospital located in the interior of the state of Ceará from November 2014 to May 2015. This research followed seven of the 12 steps proposed by the dialectical hermeneutic circle, having as subjects 33 respondents divided into groups: Stakeholders of Management, Stakeholders of Assistance, and Stakeholders of Teaching and Research. In order to analyze the data, the technique of constant comparison was used, through the Structured Data Theory, and it was evidenced that after the contracting with the Unified Health System, from the Restructuring Program of the Teaching Hospitals in Brazil, the hospital in this study, progress was made in relation to the three normative axes of teaching hospitals, with advances related to partnerships with Higher Education Institutions, the work of the Monitoring Committee, and the specific funding for contracting.